13th Floor New Song Of The Day: Yumi Zouma – Half Hour

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Kiwi popsters Yumi Zouma are set to release their highly anticipated followup to Yoncalla this week. Willowbank is due out this Friday, October 6th.

The band is flying to Europe today to begin a tour is support of the new album. The 13th Floor spoke to bandmember Josh Burgess earlier this year as he was putting the finishing touches on Willowbank in Christchurck.

Click here to listen to, or read, the interview.

You can listen to new track, Half Hour, here.

Here’s the record company blurb:

Just over a year after releasing their lauded debut LP, Yoncalla, Yumi Zouma return with Willowbank, the band’s sophomore album.

For the making of Willowbank, Yumi Zouma’s members — Charlie Ryder, Josh Burgess, Christie Simpson and Sam Perry — settled on a plan to reunite for the New Zealand summer. To complete what would become their first significant work written and recorded entirely in their home country, they rented a studio in Christchurch’s semi-demolished CBD, on one of the few remaining blocks that still characterizes the city from before it was destroyed by a series of earthquakes. “It was as though there was a brief pause in all of our lives and we finally felt like a band from New Zealand,” said Burgess. “We were on home turf and creating from a place that felt fundamentally natural.”

When you know it’s there, the feeling of rootedness is undeniable on Willowbank. Being connected to their origins on the bottom of the earth allowed the band’s members to craft another essential chapter in the Yumi Zouma storybook.

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